#Kazuki Nakashima

[anamon-book]

阿修羅城の瞳　中島かずき K. Nakashima Selection Vol. 2 論創社 装幀＝鳥井和昌

#阿修羅城の瞳 #kazuki nakashima #中島かずき #K. Nakashima Selection #kazumasa torii #鳥井和昌 #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #book cover

[mikyapixie]

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New Kill la Kill illustration to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary!!!!!

An anniversary pop up shop will be held in Tower Records from March 15th - March 24th!!!!

Lineup of merch at the pop-up shop included badges, acrylic stands, desk mats, T-shirt, etc!!!

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#kill la kill #10th anniversary #Kazuki Nakashima #ryuko matoi #satsuki kiryuin #mako mankanshoku

[transistoradio]

Kill la Kill, vols. 1 to 3, along with one interior page, illustrated by Ryō Akizuki.

#ryo akizuki #kill la kill #manga #kazuki nakashima

[makiruz]

Wait, the guy who made Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill and BNA also made Fourze?

Why didn't anyone told me about this?

(makes perfect sense though)

#Kamen Rider Fourze #gurren lagann #Kill la Kill #Kazuki Nakashima

[kuribo4indahouse]

#promare #studio trigger #hiroyuki imaishi #kazuki nakashima #shigeto koyama

[movie-titlecards]

Ashura (2005)

My rating: 5/10

It's fine, I guess, but there's nothing very engaging or unique about it - I kind of got distracted for a bit in the middle, and I had no trouble following the plot afterwards. Also, that one sex scene is just interminably long, to the point where it just gets really awkward to watch.

#Ashura-jô no hitomi #Yôjirô Takita #Hare Kawaguchi #Kazuki Nakashima #Masashi Todayama #Somegorô Ichikawa #Rie Miyazawa #Kanako Higuchi #Youtube

[coredrill]

i’m sure i’ve said something to this effect before (if not this verbatim lmao) and tbh it’s probably gonna sound even more unhinged than usual but like. something i really love about ttgl is the way it’s structured? like. obviously it’s got 4 main arcs, as signified by the characters who get the title cards for each (kamina, nia, rossiu, and simon). and a hugely defining factor of each is simon’s relationship with (and love for, since love is a huge theme in the show) whoever the “focus” character is. and i also like to think of it as it representing 4 different types of love? like kamina obviously being brotherly/familial love, and nia being romantic love, and rossiu being platonic love, and simon being self-love, as well as his general love for the people around him and humanity as a whole - also served in part by the 3 characters from the previous arcs being largely absent in his. but what REALLY gets me is that. platonic love is the penultimate arc; it’s right before self-love!! his relationship with rossiu is the one that challenges simon before he’s capable of achieving his final form; it’s essential to who he is and it’s necessary for their victory and it’s just. so damn important. and i don’t think it was intentionally made this way or whatever, it’s just something that makes it easy for me to connect with the show personally. so i think it’s neat!!

#HUGE asterisk ofc that rossiu’s arc is the one that gets the most shafted for time in the movies #and also there are some things in there in the show that i side eye nonetheless #but again i don’t think this was like intentional or anything; i’m just fond of the way it plays out in the show!! #a: ttgl #ch: simon jiha #ch: rossiu adai #ch: kamina jiha #ch: nia teppelin #t.ttgl #does kazuki nakashima know what kind of state he has me in with his characters. DOES HE

[asharaxofstarfall]

cersei lannister + lions

art: sandro botticelli/ “una and the lion” by briton riviere/ eduard veith/ “young peasant girl” jean pierre alexandre antigna/ the birth of venus” botticelli

quotes: “take care: mothers, daughters and inheriting self hatred”/ “kill la kill, vol. 3” kazuki nakashima/ game of thrones season two episode eight “blackwater”/ “the girl who married a lion and other tales from africa” by alexander mccall smith/ “the untold story of pyramus and thisbe” by steven l. sheppard/ “a feast for crows” by grrm/ “a dance with dragons” by grrm

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #got #cersei lannister #all of the uncredited quotes are from random wild life magazines and articles #web weaving

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Ikigami & Donor

Title: Ikigami to Donor (イキガミとドナー)

Author/Artist: Yamanaka Hiko

Shop: CD + Manga

Release Date: 2021/12/03

Cast: 

Nakajima Yoshiki x Saitou Souma

Yamashita Seiichirou + Kawanishi Kengo

Kobayashi Chiaki

Yashiro Taku

Komada Wataru

Hayashi Miho

Shiozaki Tomohiro

Higa Ryosuke

Abe Ryouma

Torashima Takaaki

Oota Kensuke

Nakashima Takuya

Fujita Mami

Miyama Mari

Souya Kazuki

Synopsis: 

"Your blood and flesh, all of it is mine." An ikigami and a healer, together their souls support each other, blooming into love...

In the distant future, ordinary teacher Yoshino learns that he is a "donor" for the strongest species, the "ikigami." These warriors are tasked with protecting the country. "The unique ability of a donor is to use their bodily fluids to heal ikigami." Yoshino learns this fact and is shocked. Thus, Yoshino is forced to live with Kidou... At first, he is like a beast, demanding Yoshino's bodily fluids, but slowly, the underlying loneliness begins to show...

"Someday, if I met a donor, could they come to love me? That thought is the only reason I survived..."

Review Proper

I can’t believe Yamanaka Hiko’s been terrorizing me for over twelve years now. OH MY GOD I’M SO OLD. And true to the Yamanaka Hiko brand, this turned out to be another fantasy masterpiece (read His 500 Years of Suffering Romance). This was definitely the type of thing that would do great even without the BL aspect of it. Now, I did have an issue with Kidou being an asshole (he's almost killed Yoshino more than once), so I’m not excusing it. But I do get how and why he turned out to be like that and I'm aware that it's important for his character development. The world-building was great, don't get me wrong, but it's definitely dubcon 2015. I would strongly advise you not to get into it if that's a deal breaker for you.

Anyway, onto the voice work.

Souma used a tone so close to Gucci's that I kept imagining Gucci being Yoshino. Yes, I didn't read the manga while listening to the BLCD. It was like after graduating Karasuno, Gucci went on to become a teacher, then a donor lmao. His Yoshino panics more like Honda-san, however, so my final verdict is that his Yoshino is half-Gucci, half-Honda-san.

This isn't Nakajiki and Souma's first rodeo, but I'm glad to say that their performance/dynamic here is different from Mikeneko and XL Size. I expected Kidou to be a mix of Amano and Anaconbayashi-kun 'cause the former was cocky and the latter was stoic, but Kidou was only 50% of that mix and 50% brooding, suffering, I'll-protect-you top. Am I even making any sense? Again, I listened to the BLCD first, but the sound direction they gave Nakajiki was very different from what I thought he'd sound like after I read the manga. It’s almost like what happened with OnoD’s expressive Hasebe-kun in the Kotonoha BLCD vs the more stoic Hasebe-kun in the manga. 

The voice work of our two leads was 👌. This might just be my fave out of their pairings 'cause the sex isn't over-the-top like XL Size and Mikeneko. I will say that I wasn't completely sold on Yamashita Seiichirou as Shibata-san 'cause I feel like he speaks too slowly, but I'm sure it'll grow on me by the time I listen to their spin-off. KawaKen was fine. My heart broke for him every time Shibata-san rejected him, so it's safe to say he's got Taki-kun down already.

Oh. I did have a slight issue with the sfx too. Why was it so watery??? Lmao. Even r18 otome cds aren't that wet. But it's not so glaring that it'll turn you off.

The BLCD was almost perfectly accurate to the manga. I highly recommend this to those learning mid to higher levels of Japanese. Futekiya has licensed volumes 1 & 2, so please try to support the official release if you can. I'd be lying if I said that I agree with how they translated it so... literally?, but I think it's also important to see how things are translated that way if you're aiming to dip your toes into translation aside from studying the language. For example, they used "Living God" throughout the manga instead of "Ikigami." It's correctly translated, but I personally prefer retaining the original title. You know, like how Viz uses "Kaiju no. 8" instead of "Monster no. 8?"

God knows if I'll ever survive the spinoff that I wanted to work on. I avoided talking about it for a reason lmao. Anyway, if y'all liked this, then please give 500 Years (Ono Yuuki x Suzuki Tatsuhisa) and Shortcake no Ichigo Sawaranaide (Nojima Hirofumi x Takeuchi Ken). These two are android bls and Ikigami to Donor is more guide bl, but they both share a futuristic vibe.

#blcd reviews #blcd 2021 reviews #ikigami to donor #ginger records #yamanaka hiko #nakajima yoshiki #saitou souma #kobayashi chiaki #yashiro taku #komada wataru

[silvadour]

"Gurren Lagann! Spin! Who the hell do you think I am?" Gurren Lagann Ep. 01 - "Bust Through the Heavens with Your Drill!" Key Animator: Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜) Storyboards: Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之) Episode Director: Masahiko Otsuka (大塚 雅彦) Screenplay: Kazuki Nakashima (中島 かずき)

#Gainax Classic Goodness #You have no idea how many times I've rewatched this show #Gurren Lagann #ttgl #Simon the Digger #mechagraphics #my gif #gif remake

[yurisorcerer]

Trying to decide if this is one of the worst episodes of Metallic Rouge or the best.

Here's the thing, okay? On the one hand; it still sucks that this show has a beautiful silver-haired butch who's a revolutionary and they made her both straight and the bad guy. (Said butch, Jill / Silvia, would probably be my favorite character if she had more screentime. I wish she was developed beyond being Metallic Rouge's version of Magneto.) It sucks that The Joker, Baybey has continued to be an important character and that they're now having him nominally switch sides because he's such a little heehoo rascal.

In general this show's writing is just really bad, and it seems like what we're building up to is a Nakashima Kazuki-style endgame twist where the last episode or so turns into the various rival factions uniting against an outside threat, which seems to be the Usurpers in this case. Now, most of the shows Nakashima has written scripts for can get away with this because they're so heavily vibes-based. No one but the extremely deluded think of Kill la Kill or Promare as sophisticated theses on important issues. For Metallic Rouge...I don't know. To draw a comparison to yet another Nakashima show I feel like I'm reacting to this a way not wholly dissimilar to how people reacted to Brand New Animal in terms of its writing just absolutely not working in the slightest.

On the other hand; this episode was gay as shit and I really loved the fight scenes. I don't want to just wave every criticism I just wrote off with "so who can say if it's bad or not?" but Metallic Rouge really does work better when it's focusing on character writing as opposed to trying to make all these la-di-da sociopolitical statements where it clearly has no fucking idea where it's talking about. So yeah, the bit where Naomi quite literally rips her own heart out to give it to the dying Rouge to keep her alive did work on me, I'm gonna give them that, it was a pretty great scene. Do that and the several other scenes I liked, most notably Silvia's confrontation with Rouge, make up for the show's broader writing deficiencies? I wouldn't go that far, but I think if this does end Nakashima style with everyone setting aside their differences to fight the ooh scary aliens (IDEALLY WITH THE NEANS BEING LIBERATED AS A SIDE EFFECT? JUST A THOUGHT) that wouldn't be the worst thing, it might be the *best* possible way for the show to end at this point.

I guess we'll find out next week, given that that the final confrontation is right on the horizon.

#Metallic Rouge #yurisorcerer talks about media

[marshmallowgoop]

Hello! I'm a huge KLK fan! And I was curious about something with Ryuko's backstory, this is super small but I'd like to ask about something. When Ryuko explains her backstory, she's shown at a point to be standing with a group of delinquents- and then in the next scene- now standing alone with them all injured and scattered across the ground. Like- HOW-? Did she get betrayed or was she becoming too violent...??

Hi there!

It's just my interpretation—I'm not aware of any concrete background information regarding these particular shots—but I never got the sense that the group was ever particularly friendly with Ryuko or that it was her gang or anything like that. A newspaper ad introducing Ryuko's character, written by screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima himself, says this:

Ever since I could remember, I was alone. I had no advantage but my will to win. Only I could protect myself. That was what kept me going. The living sailor uniform I wear will see this maiden’s will through.

What’s this living sailor uniform anyway? That I’m wearing it is the strangest thing of all. But even so, that’s fine. As long as I beat these guys, It doesn’t matter how I look. That’s the spirit of Matoi Ryuuko.

So, my impression is that Ryuko's partnership with Senketsu is so strange to her partly because she's never had that kind of camaraderie with anyone before. The folks in that first image up there were never her friends, even if they could all be considered "juvenile delinquents."

That's just how I see it, though!

#skylarismynewson #replies #kill la kill #violence #? #i have so many feelings about lonely ryuko working with senketsu yes i make everything about the girl and her shirt 😭 #sorry for the late reply! been out of town for a while but trying to catch up!

[dorothydalmati1]

Obscure Animation Subject #54: Gurren Lagann

Originally posted on Twitter on April 14, 2023.

Produced by Gainax, written by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, it takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages.

It focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina, who live in a subterranean village and wish to go to the surface. Using a mecha Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface and start fighting alongside other humans against Lordgenome's forces, before fighting their true enemy.

It ran for 27 episodes on TV Tokyo between April and September 2007, with films released in 2008 and 2009. It received acclaim from critics, sitting at at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 17 reviews. The critic consensus calls it, "a humorous spectacle appreciate by anime fans."

It’s not as well-known now as it was then, but it was a pop culture staple. It led to the foundation of Studio Trigger, with Gurren Lagann's visual humor and style inserted into their work. Shigeto Koyama, who designed worked this show, designed worked on Big Hero 6.

It definitely defined anime in the late 2000s, and while it only last one season, its legacy still made a lot of importance. Definitely an important piece of mecha anime and Gainax history. It is one of several science fiction anime to receive a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

#Gurren Lagann #anime #obscure animation #gainax

[twst-drabbles]

Take as long as you need! I know university/college can be stressful. I’m a junior in college myself. Make sure to take breaks, eat, and get proper rest.

On another note….

My roommate made me watch Promare. She apparently watched it over the summer and loved it. So she made me watch it two days after we moved into the dorm. (Literally just barely a week ago) It’s SO good. The music is even better! If you get the chance, watch it.

I just get so burnt out that I need to sleep and nap a lot before getting recharged.

As for the Promare, yeah people recommended it to me, but to be perfectly honest, I ended up absorbing a lot of information secondhand so now I have no interest in watching it. Along with the fact I'm not the biggest fan of Hiroyuki Imaishi's and Kazuki Nakashima's style of story telling so I'll be skipping it.

#admin

[nerdiertides]

Anime NYC 2023 - Both 'Gurren Lagann movies' are heading to theaters for the 15th anniversary

(Featured Image Source: ©Kazuki Nakashima, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Project GURREN LAGANN / Aniplex / Fathom Events) Get ready to pierce the heavens and go all out as another major anime milestone is nearly here, with the Gurren Lagann movies celebrating their 15th & 16th anniversaries with a return to the theaters. Gurren Lagann is an anime fan-favorite mecha series created by Gainax and co-produced…

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#Anime #Anime NYC 2023 #Movie

[rosecaffelatte]

SORTING HQ CHARACTERS INTO UNNECESSARY CATEGORIES

because I like sorting things for no ducking reason

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Hanayama Kazumasa (setter at Wakutani) Higashiyama Katsumichi (wing spiker at Johzenji) Kageyama Tobio Maruyama Kazuki (wing spiker at Tsubakihara) Shibayama Yuuki Yamaka Mika Yamagata Hayato Yamaguchi Tadashi Yamamoto Taketora Yamasaki Ryouji (captain and ace of Kiyokawa) Yamashiro Souji (wing spiker at Sarukawa)

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Ginjima Hitoshi Kawashima (teammate of Hinata’s middle school team) Matsuhima Tsuyoshi (middle blocker at Wakutani) Nakashima Takeru (captain at Wakutani) Sakishima Isumi (Nohebi) Terushima Yuuji Tsukishima Kei Ushijima Wakatoshi Wajima Tomokazu (libero at Sarukawa)

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Himekawa Aoi Kawanishi Taichi Kawashima (teammate of Hinata’s middle school team) Kawatabi Shunki (pineapple head at Wakutani) Koganegawa Kanji Kurokawa Hiroki (after picture of drug abuse captain at Karasuno) Matsukawa Issei Nurukawa Yoshiaki (middle blocker at Kakugawa) Oikawa Tooru Onagawa Tarou Soekawa Jin Tamagawa Hiroki (wing spiker at Tokonami)

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Kentarou Kyoutani Kotarou Hitaki (coach of All Japan’s Boy’s Youth Team) Koutarou Bokuto Rintarou Numariji (wing spiker at Johzenji) Rintarou Suna Tarou Onagawa Yuutarou Kindaichi

#all schools #shiratorizawa #fukurodani #karasuno #johzenji #seijoh #inarizaki #wakunan #nekoma #Wakutani #tsubakihara #sarukawa #haikyuu!! #haikyuu #hq!! #my posts